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Edgar Ray Killen


 

Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen (born in 1925) is an American sawmill operator and part-time Baptist minister who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964. He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime. He has appealed the verdict and is awaiting a hearing by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

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